Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Drs. Brickner, Peet and Penneld described in London last week are evidences of a growing emphasis among doctors. Where physicians cannot cure with drugs, psychiatrists with suggestions, manipulators with physical therapy, surgeons with excisions, nerve specialists are daring to meddle by disconnecting parts of the body's signal system. Along this line is the work of the Mayo Clinic's handsome senior brain surgeon. Dr. Alfred Washington Adson. Dr. Adson told the London Congress the technique, which he worked out with a Mayo associate, Dr. George Elgie Brown, of stopping Raynaud's Disease. This...
...thunder of a three-pounder is not noise but music to His seagoing Majesty. That night the British Fleet was "lit up like a Portuguese Carnival"-as an admiring Portuguese diplomat remarked- but next day the King's delighted subjects were left behind, the floating grandstands were signaled not to follow, and His Majesty led the fleet to sea in war formation, flying from his yacht a signal meaning "THE ENEMY IS IN SIGHT." No enemy was ever sighted, but the big guns pounded away at H. M. S. Centurion, a target ship controlled by radio. Of 320 "dead...
...skyscraper topped by an Hispanic tile roof, with the printing plant separated from the main structure by a 6-in. crack. Next the City Council stepped in, offered to save a retrial by a new appraisal which set the figure at a high $1,875,000. That was the signal for Mr. Chandler to do the handsome thing: he offered to accept $225,000 less and salvage some of his equipment. Bribery! yelled the Times's enemies. With the structure of its new home completed, the Times was faced with the possibility of another long-drawn condemnation proceeding. Nevertheless...
...good whiskey, President Morse started for college but dropped out of Hill School at the suggestion of his business-minded father, who set him to work as a molder's assistant in the Beloit foundry. During the War, President Morse was chief procurement officer for the U. S. Signal Corps, is still called "Colonel." Now 56, he loves to hunt big game in India, likes to drive fast cars to work from his home in Lake Forest out-side Chicago...
...agent who arrives in town pretending to be a representative for an airline. Madge Evans is the girl reporter who regards him with suspicion. Leslie Fenton is the head crook who terrorizes the town's leading banker. Lynn Overman is the secondary G-man whose murder is the signal for the grand roundup in the deserted factory in which police with machine guns exterminate their enemies. Most sadistic shot: gangsters pushing a dinner pail over Overman's ears before shooting him to death...